Search help! Files ending with .. in them?

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Search help! Files ending with .. in them?

Postby Maelstroem » Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:19 pm

Trying to do a local search for files with .. in them, e.g. filename..avi, filename..mpg etc. How do I filter on the ..avi ..mpg part to show only those files that have that double period in them?
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Re: Search help! Files ending with .. in them?

Postby Quade » Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:30 pm

[.][.]avi - if it's local search.
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Re: Search help! Files ending with .. in them?

Postby Maelstroem » Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:18 pm

Spot on, thanks for that!
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